Senior Devops Engineer @ Apollo.io

Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world’s largest enterprises. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 270 million B2B contacts, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members. Apollo.io is growing rapidly, with 900% revenue growth since 2021, and is looking for world-class talent to keep building with us.

Your Role & Mission:

As the Senior DevOps Engineer, this role will have direct input into how we scale, secure, and monitor our systems and services throughout the entire organization. You will work on our Infrastructure team made up of experienced Systems Engineers with a diverse background and collaboratively build upon our cutting-edge infrastructure platform. Apollo Engineering strongly believes in allowing team members to take ownership of what they do, and our approach to problem-solving relies heavily upon creativity, communication, and collaboration.

Daily Adventures & Responsibilities:

As the Senior DevOps Engineer, you will work on:

Infrastructure Ownership

GCP support, operation, scale, and architect ensure high availability of all systems
High availability of production systems, and a highly visible and measurable environment
Automating and streamlining standard infrastructure operations.
Provisioning IAM Users, Roles and Permissions
GKE Cluster provisioning, maintenance and upgrades.
Proficiency in Auto Scaling techniques and Deployment strategies for high availability and self-healing infrastructure.
Database support with MongoDB, ElasticSearch, RedisCache and BigQuery.
Making high-level decisions on technologies we use to create and deploy our applications.

Internal Tools Ownership
- Terraform automation with an Infra-As-Code approach to provisioning
- Ansible support and improvements to automation
- Spinnaker Deployment Pipelines - creation, operation, and upgrades.
- Monitoring systems implementation and support, expanding to provide a comprehensive monitoring solution, At a Glance system statuses.
- Supporting engineers on internal tools, systems, and processes.

Project Tasks
- Task prioritization.
- Task and project level estimation.
- Use of modern project management software such as JIRA to organize epics, stories and tickets and track progress.
- Requirements gathering required for projects.
- Breaking larger tasks down into smaller tasks and identifying the order in which they should be completed.
- Using agile project management techniques like stand-ups and weekly sprint planning.

Network Configuration and Support
- GCP Networking, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Virtual Private Clouds, etc ..
- API Gateway, Ingresses

Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Communicate technical ideas to software developers in written and verbal formats.
- Prioritize cross-functional requests against each other and planned Dev Ops work
- Communicate the team’s progress on key projects and metrics to engineering management.

Experience required to apply for this role:

7+ years of experience of related experience working in a production environment
Strong background in Linux/UNIX (Debian/Ubuntu)
Experience with Google Cloud Platform, preferably with multiple GCP services
Information Security best practices, particularly in the context of GCP and BigData
Experience with configuration management & automation (Ansible, Terraform)
Monitoring and Metrics gathering (GCP Logs, Prometheus, NewRelic)
Familiarity with Linux Containers and Virtualization (Docker)
Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker Compose.
Knowledgeable in networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, IPSEC, etc.)
Strong interest in learning new and emerging technologies
Modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies and techniques.
General experience with NoSql, RDBMS (Access Control, Administration, Tuning, etc.)

Preferred Skills:

Experience validating and deploying software to cloud infrastructure, including running unit tests, producing build artifacts, and running end to end tests.
Ability to organize and drive an infrastructure project using Agile project management tools and techniques.
Strong problem-solving abilities and technical reasoning.
Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering teams.
Performance benchmarking and capacity planning
Knowledge of microservices architecture
Knowledge of the challenges faced by software engineers in a modern engineering department.

What You’ll Love About Apollo

Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees’ careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You’ll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We’re very collaborative at Apollo, so you’ll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You’ll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you’ll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!

6 month growth

1 year growth

2 year growth

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